May 23, 2019
Dear Reader,
Thank you for visiting my newly designed blog! Returning readers: thank you for your patience! New readers: welcome! Along with visual changes I have honed my content. My mission is to investigate, inform and change rape culture.
I’m excited to announce that I’ve just finished writing a book. Memories of my Mind is part memoir and part investigation into the culture and trauma of rape. Rape and sexual assault have become one of the most challenging and important topics of our age and thanks to the #metoo movement it is now front and center.
My rape 50 years ago was the impetus that led to both the book and this blog. I’ve spent the last three years researching rape in an attempt to heal myself from youthful traumas, wounds that indelibly and catastrophically affected my life. Memories of my Mind is my story.
My book is more than a memoir. It examines the use of shame to silence victims, and discusses the rapist’s point of view because in order to change the rape culture, we need first to understand the problem. The book examines America’s unfair legal structure, how it vindicates the rapist and unfairly punishes the survivor. In addition, it presents compelling research into the brain and how it is affected by the trauma of rape. Memories of my Mind is my contribution towards changing patriarchal rape culture.
You will notice a new category for posts specifically presenting stories and research on the topic of rape titled Rape Posts, a Links/Info page of important websites, and a Studies category for rape related academic studies. Starting at the end of May there will be a monthly newsletter on current rape related issues. Archived posts are still available. I want this blog to be a clearing house on rape information.
Please subscribe below. I promise I won’t bombard you with emails. If you know any survivors or anyone interested in changing rape culture please tell them about this blog and know that you are not alone.
Thanks for reading.
Hannah
June 2, 2020
your article in Medium was clear, articulate, and extremely well written. I found it convincing,
April 2, 2020
the statements by the two women, and you, were articulate, knowledgeable, and extremely well written.
June 1, 2019
This most recent post about the UK wanting to require victims to hand over their personal electronic devices in the course of their investigations only highlights their own failure to understand the victim and the dynamics of rape. It constitutes a revictimization of the woman: from her so much has already been forcibly taken, we now will forcibly take more. Elements of prurient interest and voyeurism have obviously crept in here. Law Enforcement has many other avenues and resources available in its investigations than further violations of a woman’s privacy.